Books by James Williams

There is growing recognition and understanding of music's fundamentally spatial natures, with significances of space found both in the immediacy of musical practices and in connection to broader identities and ideas around music. Whereas previous publications have looked at connections between music and space through singular lenses (such as how they are linked to ethnic identities or how musical images of a city are constructed), this book sets out to explore intersections between multiple scales and kinds of musical spaces. It complements the investigation of broader power structures and place-based identities by a detailed focus on the moments of music-making and musical environments, revealing the mutual shaping of these levels. The book overcomes a Eurocentric focus on a typically narrow range of musics (especially European and North American classical and popular forms) with case studies on a diverse set of genres and global contexts, inspiring a range of ethnographic, text-based, historical, and practice-based approaches.

There is now a great need for people within education (both students and teachers) to engage critically with research and it is supported by the Department for Education, Ofsted and the teaching community. This books shows how to read journal articles critically, how to assess the robustness of research claims and the relevance of the results.

Williams was a fascinating individual who, in this memoir, manages to cram more life into fewer pages than almost anyone, a habit of a travelling life that must have served him well

Against the unjust legacies of the traditional sublime, James Williams defends an anarchist sublime: multiple, self-destructive and temporary; opposed to any idea of highest value to be shared by all, but always imposed on the powerless.

This book is about prayer. I realize that as a child of God, we have the victory, but many of us are struggling with strongholds that have been passed down from generation to generation, and as a result those strongholds are keeping us from living victoriously in certain areas of our lives. This book, when the principles are applied will help us to Turn Our Defeat Into Victory, and the weapon that we are going to use is PRAYER.Once we realize that behind every situation that we face, there are spiritual powers and rulers of darkness at work, and before we can tear down the strongholds that the enemy has built, we must be able to recognize who he is. The Bible lets us know in Ephesians 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places, and now that we know who the enemy is we can move our weapons into place, and that weapon is PRAYER.

Man's plight in this world of physical existence is due in part to his inability to recognize and understand the source, and purpose of all that exists in it. Spiritual laws are the driving force shaping and determining the character and nature of all things. A careful look into scripture helps us to understand that all that has been created, be it the simple microcosm of the atom, or the more complex macrocosm of the stars and planets hold a unique place in understanding ourselves. Even the character of man is governed by laws and principles originating beyond the natural self. LET THIS MIND BE IN YOU is a comprehensive biblical and scientific study into how behavior is governed by laws and natures, revealing insight into creation and the purpose for which all exists. All of creation has the unique ability to reveal the character and nature of its creator. "For the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse" (Romans 1:20).

Offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer. Jay Williams examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents.

Originally published in 1932, this book examines Section Four of the British Statute of Frauds. Although all but two sections of the original Statute have been repealed, Statute Four has a continued influence on British contract and surety law and has been adopted, in various forms, by various countries in the Commonwealth.

A revised, expanded and fully up-to-date critical introduction to Deleuze's most important work of philosophy. This second edition of Williams' classic text includes significant new material on the idea of intensity, Deleuze and science and questions of action after Difference and Repetition, all of which feed into current debates around Deleuzian practice in politics and ethics. He also engages with the recent foremost interpretations of Deleuze by Bryant, Sauvagnargues, Smith, Somers-Hall and de Beistegui which will help guide you through the key debates and oppositions. A final critical section introduces and gives brief descriptions of new works on Deleuze, contrasting the Williams reading with others. This is an essential resource for anyone working on Deleuze and looking for new insights into his work.

Throughout his career, Deleuze developed a series of original philosophies of time and applied them successfully to many different fields. Now James Williams presents Deleuze's philosophy of time as the central concept that connects his philosophy as a whole. Through this conceptual approach, the book covers all the main periods of Deleuze's philosophy: the early studies of Hume, Nietzsche, Kant, Bergson and Spinoza, the two great philosophical works, Difference and Repetition and Logic of Sense, the Capitalism and Schizophrenia works with Guattari, and the late influential studies of literature, film and painting. The result is an important reading of Deleuze and the first full interpretation of his philosophy of time.

Describing the hard working conditions on plantations and harsh treatment of apprentices unjustly incarcerated, this book argues that apprenticeship actually worsened the conditions of Jamaican ex-slaves: former owners, no longer legally permitted to directly punish their workers, used the Jamaican legal system as a punitive lever against them.

This book offers the first critical study of Gilles Deleuze's The Logic of Sense, his most important work on language and ethics.

This text considers the full range of the political thought of Francois Lyotard and its broader implications, tracing its development from his early Marxist essays to his break with the thought of Marx and Freud.